public List<RPMusicAlbum> GetAllAlbums()
{
if (!Settings.Default.EnableMusicLibrary) return new List<RPMusicAlbum>();
WindowsMediaPlayer WMPlayer = new WindowsMediaPlayer();
List<RPMusicAlbum> output = new List<RPMusicAlbum>();
IWMPStringCollection scAlbums = WMPlayer.mediaCollection.getAttributeStringCollection("AlbumID", "Audio");
for (int i = 0; i < scAlbums.count; i++)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(scAlbums.Item(i))) continue; // avoid null strings
RPMusicAlbum album = new RPMusicAlbum();
album.ID = scAlbums.Item(i);
// Find a song in this album
IWMPPlaylist pl = WMPlayer.mediaCollection.getByAttribute("AlbumID", album.ID);
if (pl.count < 1) continue; // don't add the album; no matching media items (must be an error, shouldn't happen)
IWMPMedia song = pl.get_Item(0); // just use the first song to get the additional album info
// ALBUM ARTIST: Try to use the song property's "album artist", if this doesn't work, use the first song's author
album.ArtistID = song.getItemInfo("WM/AlbumArtist");
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(album.ArtistID))
album.ArtistID = song.getItemInfo("Author");
album.Title = song.getItemInfo("WM/AlbumTitle");
album.GenreID = song.getItemInfo("Genre");
output.Add(album);
}
WMPlayer.close();
// Sort output A-Z
CommonEPG.Comparers.RPMusicAlbumNameComparer myComparer = new CommonEPG.Comparers.RPMusicAlbumNameComparer();
output.Sort(myComparer);
return output;
}
